Patient data collection system and methods

a patient data and data collection technology, applied in the field of patient data collection system and methods, can solve the problems of falling patients, requiring specialized and expensive equipment, and affecting the measurement of balance/sway, so as to achieve the effect of reducing the number of patients

a patient data and data collection technology, applied in the field of patient data collection system and methods, can solve the problems of falling patients, requiring specialized and expensive equipment, and affecting the measurement of balance/sway, so as to achieve the effect of reducing the number of patients

US7163516B1Inactive Publication Date: 2007-01-16PAGNACCO GUIDO +2
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[0021]There are now nearly 1,000 hip fractures each day in the United States, with 95% of them caused by falls. It is well understood that older people are not aware of their risks of falling, and neither recognize risk factors nor report these issues to their physicians. Because patients do not tell their physicians, their problem is never identified, so their physicians do not assess the patients for fall risk. Because physicians do not routinely make fall risk assessments, they do not intervene. As a result, balance problems often go undetected with risks becoming evident only after injury and disability have already occurred. To help overcome this problem, it is important and recommended that all physicians routinely assess patients, especially older patients, for risk of falling. Accordingly, the invention is concerned with providing physicians with a means to easily and efficiently assess patients for fall risk.

[0022]It is well understood that the best medical intervention str...

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Abstract

A system for collecting patient screening data is disclosed. The system includes force measuring apparatus for measuring weight and for measuring balance forces, and stimuli delivery apparatus for delivering first stimuli designed to evaluate visual acuity, for delivering second stimuli designed to evaluate hearing acuity, and for accepting patient responses to the first stimuli and the second stimuli. A processing unit is associated with and manages the operation of the force measuring apparatus and the stimuli delivery apparatus for collecting weight and balance force measurements from the force measuring apparatus and patient responses from the stimuli delivery apparatus.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part application from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 938,953, filed 24 Aug. 2001 now abandoned.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention relates to apparatus and methods identifying balance disorders, and to apparatus and methods for detecting and measuring biological functions in humans and for collecting patient screening data.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Falls among patients, especially the elderly, is a rapidly growing problem, which costs patients and insurance companies over $20 billion each year. Fall prevention does not begin with knowing how to prevent falls. Rather, fall prevention lies in getting physicians, particularly primary care physicians, to identify and assess virtually every fall risk patient and every elderly patient. Making an assessment of a patient's fall risk requires a physical examination, an audiometric / otological evaluation, a focused patient medical history asse...

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Patent Timeline
16 Jan 2007
Publication
US7163516B1
IPC
A61B5/00
CPC
A61B3/032; A61B5/12; G01G23/3728; A61B5/4023; A61B5/4869; G01G19/50; A61B5/22; A61B5/1072
Inventors
PAGNACCO, GUIDO; OGGERO, ELENA